Battery connection.



.No. 649,390. Patented May 8, 1900. G. F; ATWUOD.

BATTERY CONNECTION.

(Application filed. June 7, 1899.) (No Model.)

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enonon r. ATWOOD, or CHAZY, NEW YORK, AssioNoR or ONE-HALF TO WILLIAM w.woon, or woons FALLS, NEW voRK.

BATTERY CONNECTION.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 649,390, dated May 8,1900.

Application filed June 7,1899. Serial No. 719;?25; (No model.)

To (all whon-t it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE F. ATWOOD, a citizen of the United States,residing at West Ghazy, in the county of Clinton and State of New York,have invented new and useful Improvements in Battery Connections, ofwhich the following is a specification.

My invention relates to battery connections-i. 6., devices forelectrically connecting an element in one vessel of a battery to aconductor leading to an element in another vessel of the battery. v

It has for its general object to provide a simple and inexpensiveconnection embracing such a construction that the manipulation of asingle screw is calculated to simultaneously fix it on both an elementand a conductor of difierent thicknesses disposed at right angles toeach other or render it loose and'perniit of its ready removal from thesame.

The invention will be fully understood from the following descriptionand claim when taken in conjunction with the annexed drawings, inwhich--- Figure 1 is a sectional view illustrating the application ofthe connection. Fig. 2 comprises disconnected perspective views of theparts making up the connection.

Referring by letter to said drawings, A is a battery vessel, B anelement therein, and O a conductor, of copper or other material,calculated to effect electrical connection between the element and anelement of another vessel (not shown) of the battery.

D is my improved connection, which is preferably made of brass andcomprises two sections a b and a screw 0 for connecting the same andclamping the element and conductor between them. The sections a b havetheir arms disposed at right angles to each other, so as to enable themto accommodate themselves to the ordinary angularly-disposed batteryelements and conductors, and they are provided at the apices of theirangles with transverse apertures, that of the section I) being threaded,as illustrated. The said sections are also provided in the meeting facesof their arms with rabbets d d, the rabbets (Z, which are designed toreceive the conductor 0, being of a less depth than the rabbets d, whichare designed to receive the element. By virtue of this when theconnection is applied to an element and conductor,

as illustrated in Fig. 1, and the screw is tightened the sections willbe securely clamped upon the conductor 0 throughout the length of therabbets d and upon the element .13 throughout the length of the rabbetsd, thus insuring electrical connection between said conductor andelement without liability of breaking the element, which is generally ofcarbon and of a greater thickness than the conductor.

In applying the connection the element B is arranged in the rabbets dand the conductor O in the rabbets d of the sections, after which thescrew is tightened, when the sections will be simultaneously clamped onthe element and conductor.

To remove the connection, it is simply necessary to loosen the screw,when the sections may be readily disconnect-ed from the element andconductor.

It will be appreciated from the foregoing that my improved connection isextremely simple and inexpensive, is susceptible of ready engagementwith and disengagement from the element and conductor, and is calculatedto securely hold and effect electrical 8o connection between the elementand conductor without liability of breaking the circuit.

I am well aware of the patent of one Bell, No. 507,403, of October 24,1893, which discloses an electrical connector comprising two 8 5sections adapted to receive electrical wires between them and a screwpassed loosely through an aperture in one section and into a threadedaperture in the other. I there fore make no claim to such construction;but

iVhat I claim by Letters Patent is- As an improved article ofmanufacture, the herein-described battery connection consist ingessentially of the sections a I) having coincident apertures in theirintermediate por 5 tions or apices, that of the section b beingthreaded, and also having arms disposed at right angles to each other,and rabbets in the inner sides of said arms; the rabbets of one pair ofarms being of a less depth than the rabbets of the other pair wherebythe conneetor may be securely clamped on a carbon my hand in presence oftwo subscribing Witelement and a conductor of less thickness nesses.

Without liability of injuring the former, and. I GEORGE F. ATWOOD.-

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set 5 a, screw passed through theaperture of see- Witnesses:

tion a and into the threaded aperture of sec- H. E. JERRY, tion I) asand for the purpose set forth; II. S. BRUSO.

